BUILT FOR STARTUPS
AWS Cost Optimization
for Startups
Your AWS bill is growing faster than your revenue. You know there is waste. You do not have time to audit it, and you cannot justify a $150K/yr FinOps hire or a $45K/yr enterprise tool. CostPatrol gives you expert-level AWS cost optimization for $99/mo.
Your AWS bill is a black box
Every startup hits the same wall. The AWS bill grows 20-40% quarter over quarter, nobody owns it, and the options for fixing it are all wrong.
Option A: Ignore it
Most startups do. Put "AWS cost audit" on the backlog. It never gets done. Meanwhile, zombie resources, oversized instances, and unoptimized storage silently drain runway every month.
Option B: Hire a FinOps engineer
A dedicated FinOps hire costs $130K-$180K/yr fully loaded. For a Series A startup spending $20K-$50K/mo on AWS, that math does not work. You need the savings, not the headcount.
Option C: Buy an enterprise tool
CloudHealth starts at $45K/yr with per-seat pricing. Vantage gives you dashboards but not actionable commands. You end up paying enterprise prices for dashboard-first tools your team never opens.
Option D: DIY scripts
Your platform engineer writes a few boto3 scripts. They cover 2-3 services, break when AWS changes APIs, and go stale within 3 months. Time spent writing cost scripts is time not spent shipping product.
What CostPatrol finds in startup accounts
These are published scan results from actual AWS accounts. Not projections. Not estimates. Verified waste with exact dollar amounts.
Aurora cluster sprawl
Readers in 4 regions with zero cross-region queries. Dev clusters running production-class instances. Automated snapshots retained 35 days beyond policy.
Read the full scan report12 rules, 7 regions
GP2 volumes that should be GP3. Idle NAT Gateways. Unattached Elastic IPs. CloudWatch log groups with no retention policy. Waste scattered across regions nobody checks.
Read the full scan reportHidden single-region waste
Even small accounts have waste. Orphaned EBS snapshots, Lambda functions on x86 instead of ARM64, S3 buckets with no lifecycle rules. Small line items that compound.
Read the full scan reportFrom zero to savings actions in your Slack
No agents to install. No credentials to manage. No dashboards to learn. CostPatrol delivers findings where your team already works.
Deploy a CloudFormation template
One-click deployment creates a read-only IAM role in your account. No long-term credentials. No agents. Takes under 2 minutes.
CostPatrol scans continuously
100+ detection rules run daily across all your regions and services. New waste, new anomalies, new drift caught automatically.
Your team gets actions in Slack
Every morning, prioritized savings show up in your Slack channel with the exact AWS CLI command to fix each issue. Copy, paste, save.
Read-only. Always.
CostPatrol connects via a CloudFormation-deployed IAM role with zero write permissions. We use Describe, Get, and List actions only. We cannot create, modify, or delete anything in your account.
1-hour STS session tokens. External ID prevents confused deputy attacks. The CloudFormation template is public so your security team can review every permission before deployment.
See every permission we requestNot another dashboard your team ignores
Enterprise tools give you dashboards. Your team opens them once, maybe twice, then never again. CostPatrol delivers findings to where your team already works.
Daily prioritized digest
Every morning, your Slack channel gets a ranked list of savings opportunities. Highest-impact items first. Dollar amounts attached to every finding. No noise, no low-value alerts.
Exact fix commands included
Every finding includes the resource ARN, the monthly cost impact, and the exact AWS CLI command to fix it. Your engineer reads the message, copies the command, and applies the fix. No context-switching to a dashboard. No figuring out what to do.
Resolve, snooze, or ignore from Slack
Interactive buttons let your team act directly from Slack. Mark a finding as resolved when fixed. Snooze it if the timing is not right. Ignore it if the finding is intentional. No login required.
Route by severity
Send high-severity anomalies to your on-call channel. Send optimization opportunities to your platform team channel. You control what goes where.
$99/mo. Not $45,000/yr.
No per-seat fees. Your whole team gets access. Cost scales with your AWS bill, never more than 1% past $50K.
- Per-seat pricing adds up fast
- Dashboard-first, low adoption
- Vague "consider rightsizing" advice
- 6-month onboarding cycle
- Built for Fortune 500 teams
- No per-seat fees, whole team included
- Slack-first, daily adoption built in
- Exact CLI commands for every fix
- 2-minute CloudFormation setup
- Built for engineering-led startups
- Single point of failure
- Takes months to ramp up
- Manual, not continuous
- Competes with engineering headcount
- Hard to justify at Series A/B
3x money-back guarantee
If CostPatrol does not find at least 3x your subscription cost in annual savings within the first month, you get a full refund. No questions asked.
What engineering leaders say
"We had $40K/mo in AWS spend and no idea where the waste was. CostPatrol found $4,200/mo in savings in the first scan. The Slack digest means our engineers actually fix things instead of ignoring a dashboard."
"I was skeptical about another cost tool. But CostPatrol is different because it tells you exactly what command to run. My team fixed 8 findings in the first week without me having to explain anything."
"Security approved it in one meeting because it is read-only. Setup took 2 minutes. Now I forward the weekly digest to our board and the savings story tells itself. Best $99/mo we spend."
111 rules across 30+ AWS services
EC2, Lambda, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, NAT Gateway, ECS, ELB, ElastiCache, SageMaker, and more. New rules ship every release.
Instances, databases, endpoints, and load balancers running with zero traffic
EC2, RDS, and Lambda over-provisioned relative to actual utilization
GP2 volumes, orphaned snapshots, S3 buckets without lifecycle rules
x86 to ARM64 Lambda, NAT Gateway to VPC Endpoints, gp2 to gp3
Statistical baselines catch cost spikes within hours, not weeks
Reserved Instance and Savings Plan utilization tracking
See what your startup is wasting on AWS
Free scan. Read-only access. Results in 2 minutes. No credit card required.